4pm. Poem 14 What is Love? (Redacted) Love is a list (redacted). Love is my children and grandchildren, my Lucy Watusi Kitty, all the bills paid, and a little (redacted) over. Love is gratitude  and (redacted) cross legged on my big, old, soft bed. Love…

Sometimes I see a story In a single blade of grass Or reflection of a dusty glass Sometimes it’s just silence A vast and empty space And emptier glass-eyed face Sometimes I lose nothing to this And zone away for days And it matters not…

A show no one would come to see Dancing on the gazebo in gaudy rhinestones Making fools of ourselves in public Drawing on our faces with black lipstick Late nights talking to strangers Staying up to watch the sunrise Streaking down the street Sitting in…

I can’t do this poem. I don’t know how to start a poem I would redact for changed meaning. Time is simply flying by and I can’t put a single word on the page. Sorry. I tried.    

#1: I’m Late I’m late! I’m late! Shit, I forgot it was today. The fear running through my body Makes my fingers tap, tap away. As fast as they can tap. We have to close a big gap!    

Trailing you along life’s path through your trials and tribulations I learn about me and my failures and impossible situations Mirror, mirror shows me more than I could ever learn from a book you let me know through your hook that I am just a…

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It’s an afterthought, really; a mirage if you will. & you have no idea how difficult it has been to keep all of this from especially you   because the truth is i’ve garnered an affinity for you. in many ways, you have given me…

The day I heard about the kids and where they were buried was the day my world stood still.   Anger flowed through me as I wanted to yell out to the world “What’s wrong with you!”   Sadness washed out the anger, as I…

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